Career
He was an original Beatnik still working and being creative in the late 1960s when he discovered Harry Shearer, David L. Lander, and Michael McKean, all much younger than he. Most of their early work can be heard at The Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles and New York City. Beebe performed the voice of Dewey Phillips on the People’s Chronicles documentary.
An Air Force veteran, he died of lung cancer in 1998.